Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doubt about it, Dick Davenport is plenty steamed. Husband of Congresswoman Lacey Davenport in Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury comic strip, he discovered last week that U.S. Secretary of the Interior James Watt plans to open Davenport's beloved Matagorda Island Wildlife Refuge in Texas to developers. "Watt can't do that!" fumes the courtly Davenport, his straw boater slightly askew. "It's outrageous and unconscionable!" So furious is he that, "as secretary of the Maryland Audubon Society, I'm seriously thinking of demanding Watt's resignation in our next newsletter...
Those in the know are predicting that Dick Williams, recently dumped by Montreal, will be in pin-stripes by next March. Steinbrenner has frequently expressed his admiration for the fiery (some say abusive) field general who had so much success in Oakland. On the other hand, George seems to have grown tired of spunky managers; Billy Martin caused him to sprout more than a few gray hairs, and when Michael, whom everyone assumed would be a marshmallow--displayed his resentment over mid-inning telephone threats from the owner's box, Steinbrenner refused to relent...
...Dick Powell...
...mean that's professional, that's fantastic." Brother Third, who played Winthrop, Marian's little brother, says that there was some jealousy when she went on to get the leads in Li'l Abner and Oklahoma. The present Bernards High drama teacher, a veteran road-company actor named Dick Everhart, happened to be applying for a job when Meryl played Laurie in Oklahoma. Her enormous natural gift was clear even then. Says he: "When she walked on the stage there was nobody else there...
...story so far: Dick, the oldest, has just purchased new $ 1 million digs in the tony New Jersey suburb of Saddle River. He's now trying to unload, for $2.9 million, the East Side Manhattan town house he bought for $750,000 just two years ago. Jimmy, the youngest, is usually down home in Plains, Ga., watching his life pass before him on the video screen of his word processor. Last week the two took time out for trips abroad...